Welcome.
These are some of the attempts at verse that I have made over the years. I trust that they are to the glory of the Lord Jesus - and that putting them here is to His glory too.
I have now posted most that I have written at least once but continue in case a new audience finds new blessing. Occasionally I throw in some other verse.
Comment are welcome.

Wednesday, 27 August 2008

The cross of Christ, on which He boreThe sins of all who own His claim,Displays that God, for evermore,Has finished with the man of shameAnd shows the fulness of God's graceWhich has secured our heavenly place.

The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son,Propitiation for all sin,Is witness that the work is doneWhich makes us free to come withinThe presence of a holy GodTo know His love; to give Him laud.

The water from His smitten sideIs witness that His work's complete;And in each mind that work appliedEnsures for us this world's defeat,For we may be, while here below,Made clean, by virtue of that flow.

Friday, 22 August 2008

Father, Thy glory radiating outAround the vast creation Thou hast plannedBows us as in its splendid rays we stand;Removes from us unfaithfulness and doubt.Only through Jesus can we enter in:But for His work we would be lost in night.Now through His work we too are His delight;The sinless One removed, for Thee, our sin.

In Thine own nature Thou art ever love;Thou art revealed in Christ, Thy well‑loved Son.Only as in the worth of that blest OneMay we be brought before Thyself above.

To Thee belongs the worship of our heartFor the magnificence of all Thou dost;Now, to Thy glory, sons, a loving hostRespond for all Thy works and all Thou art.

Wednesday, 20 August 2008

With silver, precious stones, and gold I built a delicate, costly tower;Chryselephantine work extolled My Master, to its utmost power ‑But storms arose ‑ it would not standFor it was founded upon sand.

Again ‑ but now on rock ‑ I built An edifice designed to swellThe praise of Him who bore my guilt; I thought my work had progressed wellBut fire demolished all I saw‑ Since it was wood and grass and straw.

Lord, let me build on Thee alone According to Thy heavenly planAnd let me be a living stone Solely for Thee, and not for man;And if the glory all is ThineThe happiness and peace are mine.

Thursday, 7 August 2008

Marred by rebellion, which God loathed,And cast out by their sinAdam and Eve still go out clothed By God in coats of skin.So though we all display sin’s taintBy habit and by birthWe may go forth without restraintClothed in the Saviour’s worth.

The younger son was steeped in wrongsGod could not but detest -The Father shows where he belongsAnd clothes him in His best.And thus repentant sinners find,Though consciously undone,God’s every act towards them is kind -He clothes them in His Son.

The elders sit around the throneEach clothed in robes of white,Secured by God to be His ownAnd dwell with Him in light:All thought of variation pastThrough Christ they are complete;They bow before the throne and castTheir crowns before His feet.

Sunday, 3 August 2008

"Practice, yes ‑ but practice onlyMay be repetition of error; understanding Is required; hand, elbow and shoulderMust be and must remain in line.If the hand wavers the surface cutMay be straight but the done workWill reveal the wavering line. And the mindMust exclude all else, concentrateOn its one objective, its single achievement."

Friday, 1 August 2008

Perfection towards God - Jesus portrayed,The root and fruit, obedience and praise;Perfection towards man - He would amazeMen by the wealth of blessing He displayed;Perfection towards duties - so He madeArrangements for His mother’s coming days;Perfection towards Himself - He in His waysShowed how a saint of God should be arrayed.

And all was evenness, as when a treeIn the best light, and ideal soil grows round,Presenting the same look at every side;But He was like this though the soil might beDry, and although men’s roughness might surround.In God alone, in rest, He could confide.